About

Lavinia de Rothschild

Lavinia de Rothschild is an artist and art historian working across painting, staged photography, and writing. Her practice explores identity, perception, transformation, love, and memory, with particular attention to the distance between what is visible and what remains concealed.

Her background in art history places her work in an ongoing dialogue with the visual culture of the past, while Literature, philosophy, and the psychology of perception inform its conceptual and emotional language.

Rather than treating beauty as an endpoint, she uses it as a way of drawing the viewer closer to questions of vulnerability, contradiction, and the instability of identity.

In her paintings, transformation often appears through fragile and symbolic forms, while her staged photographic work approaches identity through bodies, masks, and physically constructed objects.

Her writing runs alongside the visual work and returns to similar questions of love, loss, and what remains after something has disappeared.